IDAIR:

an opensource platform independant daisy reader

Important note:

IDAIR is under heavy contruction, and the development of it has a much
higher priority than the maintainance of this web site. So, until
things are stable again, only belief what is in CVS
(the tcl/tk
port in gui_src is the focus). Most of the
following is still true, but I "<strike>burp</strike>"-ed
it until it's verified and/or updated.

What's this?

This is the beta version of an open source, platform
independant command-line daisy
reader. It now also has a GUI for Linux (and maybe for Windoze in the
future;
but there are already plenty so it has no priority). It can read daisy
books from any location, either from local (e.g. a cdrom or a
directory/folder on your hard or network drive) or remote (using the
http:// or ftp:// protocol) storage. It can easely be ported to
whatever platform or embedded or mobile device.

If you want to keep informed about the progress, have questions or
comments? Please join the idair-users
list. Do you want to help or discuss the technical aspects of idair?
Please join the idair-developers
list.

Why?

Because there wasn't a command-line daisy reader yet, for
Windows nor
Linux, nor a GUI daisy
reader for Linux.
Now there is.
Because there wasn't a daisy reader that could read daisy books online
from the intra/inter net.
Now there is. With (basic) authorisation and all that.

What's new?

18 december 2003: version 0.8.3 released: custom keymaps support is growing mature, lots of
other enhancements and improvements.

System requirements

Linux

the GUI needs gtk+-2.0 and the mozilla libs and include
files built
with gtk+-2.0.

Windows

nothing special really

Installation

Either download a precompiled binairy from the download
page or download the source tar ball and compile it your self (see
the INSTALL* files for brief instructions). RPM and an installShield
will be there shortly.

Usage

Start the program from a command line with one argument, the
ncc file,
e.g.

It has been tested on Linux (RedHat 7.3, gcc 2.95.3) and Windows (98SE,
MSVC++ 6.0) but should probable work on other versions as well (please report). The source
code and precompiled binaries can be found in the download
section.